commode

plural commodes

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.

   Synonyms: washstand

3. A chair containing a chamber pot.

   Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.

   2025 October 26, Olivia Ladanyi, quoting Zach, “This is how we do it: ‘When his grandma heard us having sex, she asked if we’d been “having a fun dance” upstairs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: chamber pot

4. South AsiaUSeuphemisticA toilet.

   Synonyms: toilet

5. historicalA kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

   Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect, Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.

   1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants

   1 more example

   Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]

   1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14